Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Africa — CFDA 19.517

Africa refugee-assistance obligations at $2.10 billion

USAspending.gov records $2,100,730,255.13 in obligations under CFDA 19.517. Three hundred sixty-eight awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $5.71 million per award — consistent with multi-year humanitarian awards rather than individual beneficiary payments. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical per-person ration cost.

The assistance-listing title is OVERSEAS REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR AFRICA. CFDA 19.517 is the identifier. Other regional refugee listings tagged under different CFDA numbers are not mixed into the $2.10 billion. Combining those codes would invent a combined overseas-refugee total this packet does not contain.

81 recipients and a zero-state map

Eighty-one recipients share 368 awards, or about 4.5 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $2.10 billion evenly would assign about $25.9 million per recipient. That pattern is a roster of implementing partners with several award rows each, not a nationwide grant competition. The packet does not list the 81. Recipient count is the organizational headcount, not a census of refugees or camps.

Zero states in the geographic count means the USAspending state field is empty for this extract. That is expected for overseas-coded humanitarian awards. It is not evidence that the $2.10 billion was never obligated.

Award count is not a refugee or camp count

Among foreign-assistance listings, 19.517 is a moderate-row file: 368 awards against 81 recipients. Multi-year awards and amendments can inflate award count relative to unique operations. Award count is therefore a weak proxy for “number of refugee programs.” Recipients (81) tell you how many named organizations sit on the extract; awards (368) tell you how many assistance rows were stored.

The packet does not report refugees assisted, camp populations, or rations delivered. Citing 368 as people would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, and a zero state count.

Obligations versus humanitarian outlays

The $2.10 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against these overseas refugee awards — are not in the packet. An implementing partner can show a large obligation stock while operations follow a later calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. A remaining-balance question is an outlay question this extract does not answer.

Use CFDA 19.517 to size this Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Africa listing in the assistance file. Do not use it as a refugee-population dashboard. Those series live elsewhere. This page reports the obligation book tagged 19.517.

What the 19.517 tables omit

The Africa refugee-assistance hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a camp registry, not a beneficiary roster, and not an outcomes report. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $2,100,730,255.13. That omission is definitional rather than a gap in the 368 award rows.

A zero-state coding field is not a data error by itself. Read the program page before treating missing domestic geography as missing money. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already spent on assistance.

Where the 19.517 table lives

The program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 19.517 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups that may include this CFDA among other foreign-assistance listings. For 19.517 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 19.517’s 368 awards spread $2,100,730,255.13 across 81 recipients and 0 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About 4.5 award records per recipient is the density story on this listing. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. Read 19.517 as an overseas humanitarian book: 81 implementing partners, 368 awards, empty domestic geography, and about 4.5 rows per recipient. The $2.10 billion remains an obligation stock on USAspending.gov, not a refugee census.

Questions

How much is obligated for overseas refugee assistance programs for Africa?

USAspending.gov records $2,100,730,255.13 in obligations for CFDA 19.517. SpendingVault indexes 368 awards, 81 recipients, and 0 states. The figure is an obligation sum from assistance awards, not an outlay and not a refugee count. CFDA 19.517’s $2.10 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 19.517 carry?

The listing shows 368 awards against 81 recipients, or about 4.5 award records per recipient. A simple average is about $5.71 million per award. Award count is not a refugee or camp count. Recipient dollars are on the program page.

Why does CFDA 19.517 show zero states?

The extract lists 81 recipients and a 0-state geographic count. Overseas humanitarian awards often leave the USAspending state field empty. That does not mean the $2.10 billion is missing. The packet does not name the 81 organizations.

Is $2.10 billion already spent on refugee assistance in Africa?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 19.517’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn, remaining balances, or refugees assisted. The $2.10 billion on 368 awards is the obligation figure.